Coit, Gurdon Saltonstall, Dd

Coit, Gurdon Saltonstall, D.D.

a Protestant Episcopal minister, was born in Connecticut in 1809. He graduated at Yale College in 1828; studied theology in Andover Theological Seminary one year; was ordained deacon Aug. 8,1830, and presbyter at St. John's Church, Bridgeport, Connecticut, in 1863; was rector of Christ Church, West Haven, in 1864 and 1865; of St. Michael's Church, Naugatuck, in 1866. After this time he preached occasionally, and died at Southport, November 10, 1869. See Trien. Cat. of Andover Theol. Sem. 1870, page 97.